Bag-holder



B4 A. TABER. Bag Holder.

No. 232,568; Patehted Sept 21, 1880.-

WITNESSES: V v INVENTOR:

ATTORNEYS.

NFETERS, PHOTO-LITHDGRAFHER, WASHINGTON, u c.

UN TED PAT NT ()FFICFEQ BENJAMIN A. TABER, OF NORTH EAST, PENNSYLVANIA.

BAG-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 232,568, dated September 21, 1880.

Application filed February 16, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN A. TABER, of North Fast, in the county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Holder for Grain and Feed Bags; and I do hereby declare that the following is a i'ull, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention is an improvement in that class of bag-holders in which the bags are clamped by hinged levers to the bottom of a hopper through which the grain or other substance is fed into the bag.

My invention is embodied in the construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is mainly a side view of the bag-holder, part bein g broken away. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same.

The light frame A, having legs a, supports the hopper B, that receives the grain or feed and delivers it into the bag 0, which is secured to the contracted lower end of said hopper by means of clamping-levers D. Said levers are hinged near the ends of frameA and. have broad inner ends, I), which are beveled correspondingly to an gle, or inclination of the end of the hopper B, for the purpose of ad aptin g them to clamp the edge of the bag against the hopper, as shown in Fig. 1. The clamping is effected when levers D are in horizontal position, and they are secured in such position by means of ratchet-catches or locking-bars E, which are pivoted to frame A in such manner that their teeth engage the outer ends of the levers, as shown in Fig. 2.

The method of attaching and detaching the bags is obvious. v

In case the bag is very wide, it may be clamped on one side by one of the levers 'D, and the other side folded or lapped on itself and then secured by the other lover.

The merits of the bag-holder are that it is simple and inexpensive in construction, easily and quickly operated, and does not injure the bag.

What I claim is In a bag-holder, the combination, with the frame A, having supporting legs, and the hopper B, having tapered sides, of the levers D D, which are hinged on opposite sides of said hopper and beveled at their inner ends, and the ratchet bars E E, pivoted as shown and described, for the purpose specified.

BENJAMIN ALVAH TABER.

Witnesses:

0.11 STUART, HENRY WOLF. 

